666joe
10-08-2007, 09:23 AM
Proletarian fryhouse McDonald's has announced it will offer free Wi-Fi in its 1,200 UK burger outlets by the end of the year.
The move will make McDonald's the country's largest public hotspot provider, and pits it against Starbucks' pay-as-you-go T-Mobile service for high street internet supremacy.
It's all part of a company-wide drive upmarket and away from the traditional McDonald's experience: scary clowns, mechanically-recovered beef, and screaming infants.
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Some sites already had Wi-Fi through an arrangement with BT Openzone, but access was not free. That partnership will continue, but with McDonald's footing the bill. As part of the expansion, it's also signed a second deal with The Cloud.
Some 8,000 of McDonald's 13,000 US chow sheds currently offer free connectivity.
Link - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/08/mcdonalds_wireless/
The move will make McDonald's the country's largest public hotspot provider, and pits it against Starbucks' pay-as-you-go T-Mobile service for high street internet supremacy.
It's all part of a company-wide drive upmarket and away from the traditional McDonald's experience: scary clowns, mechanically-recovered beef, and screaming infants.
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/2240/mcde3.gif (http://imageshack.us)
Some sites already had Wi-Fi through an arrangement with BT Openzone, but access was not free. That partnership will continue, but with McDonald's footing the bill. As part of the expansion, it's also signed a second deal with The Cloud.
Some 8,000 of McDonald's 13,000 US chow sheds currently offer free connectivity.
Link - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/08/mcdonalds_wireless/